Transcript The Progressives - Mr. Nichol's History Hotline

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Campaigned
Progressives
to
attacked
prohibit
gov’t
childcorruption
labor,
limitat
1.
What issues
did Progressives
focus
on,
working
all
levels
initiate
minimum
wage
and
whathours,
helped
energize
their cause?
laws.
2.
How did
to reform
Practices
ofProgressives
Big Business;try
Helping
urban
society?
poor; Improving working conditions;
3.
How
didgov’t;
Progressives
fight
to reform
Reforming
Newspapers
and
By
exposing
the problems;
Forming
the
workplace?
magazines
gave
publicity
to their cause.
organizations
to lobby
for improvements.
4. How did Progressives reform gov’t at
the national, state, and local levels?
The Progressives
Chapter 16
New York
City’s
Mulberry
Street
What the Heck is Progressivism?
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Sought to address the new problems that
came with the urban growth and
industrialization
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Improve living conditions of urban poor
Check the power of big business
Stop gov’t corruption and improve service
REFORM, REFORM, REFORM
Muckrakers…Journalists expose
problems and corruption
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Ida Tarbell
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Exposed ruthless
business practices of
Standard Oil and John
D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil broke
into Chevron, Amoco,
Conoco, Exxon, and
Mobil
Muckity Muckrakers
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Novelist Upton Sinclair highlights poverty
and the meatpacking industry with his
book, The Jungle
“I aimed at the public's heart, and by
accident I hit it in the stomach”
More Muckrakers…
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Jacob Riis
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Photojournalist whose
book, How the Other
Half Lives, showed the
dirty underbelly of
urban life
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Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
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Over 140 people died, mostly young immigrant
women
Doors opened inward on 8th floor where fire
started
Firefighters could spray water only to 7th floor
Fire ladders only reached between 6th and 7th
floor
There were only two fire escapes
Doors locked to prevent theft
Reform, Reform, Reform
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Society Reform
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Housing
Civil Rights
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National Association for
the Advancement of
Colored People
Anti-Defamation
League
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Workplace Reform
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Child Labor Laws
10 hour days
Minimum Wage
Unions
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International Ladies’
Garment Workers Union
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“We’d rather starve
quick than starve slow”
Uprising of 20,000
Industrial Workers of the
World
More Reform…
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City and State Gov’t
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City Commission
System
Council-Manager
System
Regulation of RR
utilities, transportation
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Election Reform
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Direct Primaries
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17th Amendment
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Vote directly for Senators
Secret Ballot or “Australian
Ballot”
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Vote directly for
candidates
All candidates of one
sheet
Initiative, Referendum, and
Recall